Best Youtuber: EDWARD "EDD" GOULD vs EMILY HARTRIDGE

EDWARD "EDD" GOULD

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould (28 October 1988 – 25 March 2012) was a British animator, artist, writer, director, and voice actor. He was best known for...

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould (28 October 1988 – 25 March 2012) was a British animator, artist, writer, director, and voice actor. He was best known for creating Eddsworld, a media franchise consisting of Flash animations and webcomics featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Thomas Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves and others. After Gould's death in 2012, production of Eddsworld was passed on to Ridgewell and later Hargreaves. In 2002, Gould began animating using a GIF animation program to publish on Stick Figure Death Theatre. Upon discovering the website no longer accepted GIFs, Gould moved to Macromedia Flash in November 2002. After seven months of learning the basics of Flash animation from his mentor Lavalle Lee, Gould published his first Newgrounds entry on 6 June 2003. Gould soon began his career in animation and studied as an independent animator at the University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone, England. Gould later joined Cake Bomb, a creative media group founded by Ridgewell. He also voiced the "I Like Trains" kid in TomSka's asdfmovie series on YouTube and animated the second episode of asdfmovie.

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EMILY HARTRIDGE

Emily Hartridge (May 25, 1984 – July 12, 2019), also known as Emily Hart, was an English YouTuber and television presenter. Emily Hartridge was bor...

Emily Hartridge (May 25, 1984 – July 12, 2019), also known as Emily Hart, was an English YouTuber and television presenter. Emily Hartridge was born in Hambledon, Hampshire, England in 1984. Hartridge began publishing vlogs on her YouTube channel in 2012 with her "Ten Reasons Why ..." videos. Her material covered topics such as sex, relationships, love, gender and modern life, as well as pieces about her personal life such as her sexuality, mental health and her decision to freeze her eggs. She also presented television shows such as Channel 4's series Oh Sh*t I'm 30 and appeared in Sketch My Life. At the time of her death, Hartridge was undergoing fertility treatment for egg harvesting as she hoped to have a baby with her boyfriend Jake Hazell as she had been diagnosed with low fertility in 2018. Hartridge met Jake whilst working as a personal trainer. After struggling with addiction and depression and as a mental health campaigner himself, Hazell appeared in Hartridge's YouTube videos on a regular basis.

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